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900 year old Saint's Heart stolen from Cathedral

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IronWing said:
Unchain my heart,
Baby let me be.
Unchain my heart
'Cause you don't care about me.
Why lead me through a life of misery
When you don't care a bag of beans for me.
Unchain my heart and let me be.
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Fucker...I'm gonna have that stuck in my head all damned day...


(one of my favorite Joe Cocker tunes.)
 
DAGTA said:
Nirvana fan?

What I actually find disturbing is the idea of cutting a heart out of a body and storing it in a wooden box in a church for 900 years.
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99.98% of all relics are not what they claim to be.

Merely some relic hunter went on a mission to find St. JoeBloe's tongue or St Rottencrotch's britches and after 10 years of fruitless searching, simply cut off the piece from some random, plague-killed peasant or buy some bauble from a merchant that bears a passable resemblance (of course--no one ever knows what these are supposed to look like, anyway) and returns it to the contracted church for a handsome reward and a hero's welcome.


And this has actually been calculated, that if you gather all of the fragments of "the true cross" that can be found in reliqueries around the world, you would have, I think 17 "true crosses."
 
zinfamous said:
99.98% of all relics are not what they claim to be.

Merely some relic hunter went on a mission to find St. JoeBloe's tongue or St Rottencrotch's britches and after 10 years of fruitless searching, simply cut off the piece from some random, plague-killed peasant or buy some bauble from a merchant that bears a passable resemblance (of course--no one ever knows what these are supposed to look like, anyway) and returns it to the contracted church for a handsome reward and a hero's welcome.


And this has actually been calculated, that if you gather all of the fragments of "the true cross" that can be found in reliqueries around the world, you would have, I think 17 "true crosses."
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Very true. The True Cross was 2,000 years ago though, by the time anyone wanted it, you could buy pieces of it from street peddlers. 😛 Spear of Destiny, the spear the stabbed Christ on the cross, is on display in Germany(?) I think. Dating puts it as a 6th century manufacturing though. 😛

Lot of the Saints are from times when the church was far more established and a major power player, if not more recent times. They knew exactly where the Saint's body was interred.
 
Bateluer said:
Very true. The True Cross was 2,000 years ago though, by the time anyone wanted it, you could buy pieces of it from street peddlers. 😛 Spear of Destiny, the spear the stabbed Christ on the cross, is on display in Germany(?) I think. Dating puts it as a 6th century manufacturing though. 😛

Lot of the Saints are from times when the church was far more established and a major power player, if not more recent times. They knew exactly where the Saint's body was interred.
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Doesn't the Spear of Destiny hang mounted behind the Pope's pulpit, which is built on top of "St Peter's Grave?"
 
A "900 year old Saint's Heart"?
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